Kyra's birthday

I know I'm late....I was just too lazy to upload the pictures from my camera. I also wanted a baby picture of Kyra--I'm having trouble scanning it. We'll see if I can get that done. Sunday was Kyra's birthday. Before church on Sunday morning, I baked a cake. Brad informed me that Kyra wanted a "rich chocolate cake". I wasn't sure what that meant so I bought a Betty Crocker
Triple Chocolate Fudge Cake mix. I let the cake cool while we were at church and frosted it when I got home (cream cheese frosting, again per Kyra's request). I mixed up my usual half recipe of frosting and when I looked at it, I thought to myself, that is not enough so I dumped in another chunk of cream cheese and about a cup of "cone" sugar and mixed it up again. I didn't want any cake pulling up when I frosted it.
We drove the truck, loaded with firewood, to San Luis. Kyra and Brad installed a fireplace insert! They had a nice fire going when we got there. This is Kyra's cake with the candles lit. Kevin and I decided that she will only get one box of candles on her cake until she's 48! haha. the biggest box of candles had only 24. What happened to the boxes with 32 candles?


She tried to blow out the candles slowly but left 3 lit. Can you see her baby bump?

Here's a better picture of baby boy bump Liggett!

we're eating cookies and cream ice cream with our Triple Chocolate Fudge cake. mmmmm! yummy! (Brad, Kyra and Kevin)

the baby's room!!!! with mama kyra

future parents! I also got out Kyra's baby book and gave it to her. She and Brad enjoyed looking through it, me too! Brad mentioned that Kyra looked like Danny, her older brother, in one picture.

Kyra's older sister, Mandi, requested birth stories so I'll try to relate Kyra's here.

My doctor for this pregnancy was Art Segal. If I remember correctly, my due date was November 30th, 1984. I was 30 yearls old. Dr. Segal wanted an amniocentsis to determine if the baby's lungs were ready for breathing outside the womb. That was not an experience I want to repeat. I told them that I didn't want to know the sex of my baby until birth. I'm old-fashioned that way. After the amnio, we decided on Nov 21st as the birth day. Nov 21st was a Wednesday that year, the day before Thanksgiving. Mandi and Danny were in school, Mandi was 7 1/2 and Danny was almost 6. I arranged with my parents for them to stay at our house on the big day to tend to their needs. We went to the hospital very early, my favorite, San Luis County General Hospital--Mandi and Danny were both born there. There was the check-in, usual prep. Kevin was allowed to be in the surgerical room but only standing by my head. He had my dad's Polaroid camera and took pictures. Everything went very well and guess what! another girl. I cried that time, too. We had previously decided on the names Kyra Rebecca or Nicholas, if we had a boy. Oh, I have to tell you where we got the name Kyra from. I was about 7 months along when we watched a video titled "Xanadu", starring Olivia Newton John. The main character's name is Kira. When I told Kevin "what do you think about the name Kira?' he said "Okay but let's spell it with a "y"". Later in the afternoon, Mandi and Danny came to meet their baby sister and Danny said to her "I'm Danny, your big brother". so cute! I'm so glad Kyra is part of our family! Thank you for being the sweet, loving woman that you are!
I almost forgot to add that we left the hospital on Saturday and had our family Thanksgiving dinner at my parents' house in Atascadero. I'll see if I can find the picture taken then.....